Cairo houses the head offices of every tier-1 Egyptian bank (CIB, NBE, QNB Alahli, Banque Misr, AlexBank, Mashreq) and every Big-4 audit firm (PwC, EY, Deloitte, KPMG) — together the largest single feeder of junior-finance talent in the country. The leading investment banks (EFG Holding, Beltone, Hermes) run their trading desks and research teams from Cairo, and the insurance sector (Allianz, AXA, GIG, Misr Insurance) recruits actuarial and finance graduates each cycle. Fintech scaleups (Paymob, Fawry, Money Fellows, MNT-Halan) have opened up a new lane of junior product-finance and revenue-operations roles in the last three years. Structured programs include EY Graduate Programme, EFG Hermes Rise, CIB Cornerstone, and Banque Misr Career Development.